What is "consignments"

Usage examples of "consignments".

I have a car, and a four-person van used primarily for consignments when more equipment and assistants are required.

That's one of the reasons I got the job, because I can drive Hastings to consignments and shit.

We're a legitimate merchantship, certified by the locals' own customs inspectors, and we're here to pick up and drop off a half-dozen small consignments and a dozen passengers.

In the early afternoon he was home in Ipswich, the two consignments stored in his bedroom.

Pay them to send it in four separate consignments in bond to a shipping freight agent in Marseilles for collection by Mr.

Two days earlier in Calais, in a tavern in the basse ville where he normally received information about his consignments of brandy, a man named Fontenay approached him, paid half of an agreed sum – ten gold pistoles – and gave him patient instructions.

Still, it would be worth paying him a visit to find out which printers he supplied, Royalists or Puritans, and whether he had ever sent any consignments to Dorsetshire.

Checking his records, he was able to tell me that large consignments had been shipped to Shrewsbury in 1642, to Worcester and Bristol in 1645, and to Exeter in 1646.